I've been using Linux and FreeBSD for some time now and this is a first. Have not found help elsewhere for this issue so if someone has a clue please help:

The users' home directories in Samba suddenly were missing. They no longer show up in their Windows My Computer as H: drive and on the server trying to link to smb://server/homes. I just get "The file or folder smb://server/homes does not exist." Shared in http://localhost:901/shares as follows:
path /usr/home
force group (group that is used by all users)
read only yes
browseable yes
available yes

Other shared directories are still working through Samba... just not the Home for each user. When clients login to the network/domain they should automatically - and used to - get an H: drive which would automatically be their profile and their My Documents from the Windows XP running on their PCs. Now they only see the other shared folders with common files for the network.